Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-08-20
ore ON THE TENNESSEE.
naj. Tom Hayes Inspects the Recent
Discoveries IN Stewart County
The Metal Of Great Value.


The Metal Of Great Value.
Some OF our readers win be in
terested in the following which we
clip from the Courier-Journal of tine
18th instant:
PADUcAH, Aug. 11.-[Spscid1 -
Maj Thomas Hayes, of Louisville,
returned last night from an inspec-
ton OF the brown hematite base of
Stewart county, Tennessee, and
other points on the Tennessee river
to Paducah. He was accompanied
by q party of gentlemen from this
place who had invited him to make
the tour through the section. The
party visited Brantley, Bailey,
Swift and Iron Valley mines, which
have but recently been opened. Mai.
Hayes, in an interview, said: / was
highly pleased with my trip and
agreeably surprised to find such fine
country along tie Tennessee river.
| have no hesitancy in saying that
the brown ore deposits found there
are the finest ever say. The brown
ore of Stewart county is on as grand
scale, so far as quantity Is concerned,
as Is the red ore of Birmingham"
Mai. Hayes, with Sloss Standiford,
Newcomb, Veach, Miller, Crane,
Reed and others, first developed the
coke iron industry OF Alabama, hav-
ing built Eureka furnace at 0xmoor,
and demonstrated that as good and
cheaper iron could be made. in the
South as in Pennsylvania and else
where. He Is very enthusiastic over
the discovery Of the rich ore, and
will begin at once to organize com
panies for the erection of two iron
furnaces in Paducah. Maj. Hayes
statements have created great excite
ment here, where, up to the present,
but little stock has been taken in the
reported discoveries of ore.
We also clip the following on the
same subject from Saturdays Amer
lean:
"Maj. .ThOs. III. Hayes, Of Louisville,
x-Superlntendent of tle Pullman
Palace Car Company, and director
and heavy stakeholder in that cor
poration, arrived out of the Tennes-
SEE with a numb, T Of gentlemen
to-day, having been up III Stewart
county, Tenn, seventy-five miles
above Baducah, inspecting some
newly discovered mines OF brown
hematite. They are enthusiastic III
their description of these new iron
fields, which the Major pronounce.
TO be the finest in the world. He
says that he was a member of the
syndicate who built the first iroT
furnaces in the deposits along the
bank of the Tennessee surpass any
thing ne ever saw in Alabama, and
he docs not believe they have theil
equal on the continent. The or'
lies i'm ledges, some of them thirty
feet dep, and he believes the supply
practically inexhaustible. The heav
Test Deis are within half mile o
tine Tennessee river, which is naviga
ble that distance from its mouth
every day in the year.
The brown hematitic ore is claimet
to be the most valuable iron or
mined and has no superior in th'
manufacture Of car wheels, Be-
samer steel and boiler plates. 1t i
from ores mined in that vicinity tina
the Hillmans made the famous boile
iron which obtained a world-wid
reputation some years ago for il
strength and tenacity
1 A company is being organized I
erect blast furnaces and rolling mill
at this point"
The existence of these iron deposit
in Stewart county has been know
in Tennessee for forty years, so ther
isn't much news in that part of il
But if the iron turns out TO be Bes
semer, as the dispatch says, tn
value of the beds will be Increase
marveiiously. Tennessee is going t
be the great iron State Of this natioi
within the next generation.